WOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! I'm free! I got my braces taken off this morning, after having them for 3+ years. It feels so good to be able to floss in less than five minutes. And I get to chew gum again. And I can bite into whole apples!!! YAY!!!! I'm going to get a retainer, but that's still way better than the braces.

I just got my (temporary) retainer. My hatred of othodontists has been renewed. Cause they put a permanent retainer on my bottom jaw (it's like, a piece of wire behind the front teeth, just glued on). And now I can't bite into whole apples anymore, because it might brake the permenant retainer. Stupid fatherless child. I'd ignore it and eat apples anyway, but it took waaaay too long for them to get the damn thing on. sigh... at least I can still chew gum and eat snickers and corn chips. But we don't have any gum in the house. sigh..._________________

I just got my (temporary) retainer. My hatred of othodontists has been renewed. Cause they put a permanent retainer on my bottom jaw (it's like, a piece of wire behind the front teeth, just glued on). And now I can't bite into whole apples anymore, because it might brake the permenant retainer. Stupid fatherless child. I'd ignore it and eat apples anyway, but it took waaaay too long for them to get the damn thing on. sigh... at least I can still chew gum and eat snickers and corn chips. But we don't have any gum in the house. sigh...

You just got bottom one?

I got that thing like 6 months before I got mine taken off. You really don't notice it after like a day though._________________"I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death."

Well, I have a temporary retainer (I think that it's one of those Invisaline things). I think that it's just one of many they had. It's only until my "real" retainer is finished, which is like, two weeks from now. So I haven't gotten my retainer, made for my teeth yet. That's on my upper jaw. On my lower jaw, they glued on a wire that I can't take out and called it a permanant retainer. So I've got this stupid plastic thing on my upper teeth, and a metal wire behind my bottom set of teeth. And because of the thing on the bottom, I'm not supposed to bite into whole apples. This makes me sad. However, I have gum, snickers, corn on the cob, corn chips, and carmel to comfort me._________________